David Kennedy

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Education

Swarthmore College, BA, 1980

Bio

David M. Kennedy is a professor of criminal justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City and the director of the National Network for Safe Communities at John Jay. Mr. Kennedy and the National Network support cities implementing strategic interventions to reduce violence, minimize arrest and incarceration, enhance police legitimacy, and strengthen relationships between law enforcement and communities. These interventions have been proven effective in a variety of settings, have amassed a robust evaluation record, and are widely employed nationally.

Mr. Kennedy’s work has won two Ford Foundation Innovations in Government awards, two Webber Seavey Awards from the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and two Herman Goldstein Awards for problem-oriented Policing. He was awarded the 2011 Hatfield Scholar Award for scholarship in the public interest. He helped develop the “Operation Ceasefire” homicide prevention strategy; High Point Drug Market Intervention strategy; the Justice Department’s Strategic Approaches to Community Safety Initiative; the Treasury Department’s Youth Crime Gun Interdiction Initiative; the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s Drug Market Intervention Program; and the High Point Domestic Violence Intervention Program.

David M. Kennedy is the author of Deterrence and Crime Prevention: Reconsidering the Prospect of Sanction, co-author of Beyond 911: A New Era for Policing, and has published a wide range of articles on gang violence, drug markets, domestic violence, firearms trafficking, deterrence theory, and other public safety issues. His latest book, Don’t Shoot, One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America, was published by Bloomsbury in September 2011.

“Chicago should be commended for police reforms, not dissed.” Crain's Chicago Business (May 20, 2016).

“Warping Time and Space: What it Really Takes to do Action Research in Crime Control.” Envisioning Criminology: Researchers on Research as a Process of Discovery (2015). Eds. Michael D. Maltz and Stephen. K Rice. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.

“Research for Problem Solving and the New Collaborations.” In Viewing Crime and Justice from a Collaborative Perspective: Plenary Papers of the 1998 Conference on Criminal Justice Research and Evaluation (1998).

“Violence and the Cities: A New National Strategy.” Mayors' Leadership Caucus on Crime and Neighborhood Revitalization. Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (November 1993).

“When Good Cops Turn Rotten.” New York Times op-ed (November 1, 1993) (appeared under the names of Joseph P. Armao and Leslie U. Cornfeld).

“Guns and Youth: Disrupting the Market.” Paper presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology (October, 1993).

“Closing the Market: Controlling the Drug Trade in Tampa, Florida.” National Institute of Justice Program Focus (April, 1993).

“Notes on Basic Place-Related Approaches to Violence Control and Neighborhood Revitalization.” Paper prepared for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (1993).

“Crime Control, City by City,” New York Times op-ed (December 18, 1992) (appeared under the names of Steve Goldsmith, Mayor of Indianapolis, Indiana, and Kurt Schmoke, Mayor of Baltimore, Maryland).

Research

The Boston Gun Project/Operation Ceasefire was one of ten 1997 winners in the Ford Foundation’s Innovations in Government award program, and received the Herman Goldstein International Award for Problem Oriented Policing, the International Association of Chiefs of Police Webster Seavey Award, and the Person of the Year Award from Law Enforcement News.

High Point, North Carolina was the winner of the 2016 Herman Goldstein Award for Excellence in Problem-Oriented Policing for its Intimate Partner Violence Intervention.

High Point, North Carolina was one of seven 2007 winners in the Innovations in Government award program.

High Point, North Carolina was a 2006 finalist for the Herman Goldstein International Award for Problem Oriented Policing

Chief’s Award, High Point Police Department, High Point, North Carolina